Serving 30,000 villagers, VDCC is run by community volunteers trained in IT and media production. It aims to promote awareness and provide training in basic computing. By equipping and teaching them to use computers, the government hopes to give these villages access to information. In the near future, it expects to improve government-citizen interaction in remote areas currently underserved.
Serving 30,000 villagers, VDCC is run by community volunteers trained in IT and media production. It aims to promote awareness and provide training in basic computing. By equipping and teaching them to use computers, the government hopes to give these villages access to information. In the near future, it expects to improve government-citizen interaction in remote areas currently underserved.
Many of these villages have limited or no access to mainstream technologies and media. Currently excluded and isolated, these communities do not benefit from the wide network of government e-services and have little control over decisions affecting their villages.
VDCC seeks to change the situation and close the technology gap. There are plans to establish more VDCCs depending on the success of the pilot project in Munnar.
“It is difficult to measure the benefits now since we are one month into the project. The volunteers have just been trained, and we expect them to be productive in the coming months,” shares Dr Rathan Kelkar IAS, IT Director, Kerala State Information Technology Mission (KSITM).
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Kelly Ng
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 30.09.2009
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